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If you're concerned about how your district is—or isn't—implementing Prop 28, the non-compliance letter is a powerful tool to elevate your voice. By submitting the letter, you're not just pointing out what’s missing—you’re showing that your community is paying attention and expects transparency, equity, and meaningful investment in arts education. Use it to advocate for the students in your district and ensure Prop 28 delivers on its promise.
The future of California’s prosperity, well-being, and civic engagement depends on our vision of all students having access to a high-quality, culturally responsive arts education. To ensure all students benefit from arts education’s ability to develop 21st-century competencies, social-emotional skills, and civic-mindedness, we must invest in students, strengthen the teacher pipeline, and address the systemic inequities in public education. The following document outlines Create CA’s 2025 advocacy and legislative priorities to further our vision.
Keep up with the key terminology, agencies, and organizations essential to starting a movement for arts education in your community today with the Advocates' Glossary!
Create CA, along with 84 community based organizations, are concerned that some school districts are making decisions without input from their communities and not complying with Prop 28’s supplement requirements by using the funds to replace existing arts education funding. We sent a letter to the Governor, State Superintendent, Senate President, and Assembly Speaker to express those concerns.
The future of California depends on our vision of all students accessing a high-quality, culturally responsive arts education. To ensure all students benefit from arts education’s ability to develop 21st-century competencies, social-emotional skills, and civic-mindedness, we must invest in students, strengthen the teacher pipeline, and address the systemic inequities in public education. The following advocacy and legislative agenda outlines Create CA’s priorities to further our vision.
You can help shape your student's school and arts education using the numerous resources provided by Create CA!
The Prop 28 AMS Planning Toolkit, developed in consultation with arts education field leaders, will help Local Education Agency (LEA) administrators, school site staff, and their allies collaborate to effectively plan for Prop 28 AMS and strategize to build or further develop a comprehensive arts program in dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts in every school and grade level.
El Kit de Planificación e Implementación de la Propuesta 28 ayudará a los administradores de las Agencias de Educación Local, al personal de las escuelas y a sus aliados a colaborar de manera efectiva en la implementación de la Propuesta 28 y a desarrollar o fortalecer un programa artístico integral en danza, artes multimedia, música, teatro y artes visuales en todas las escuelas y niveles de grado.
In November 2022, California voters overwhelmingly approved Prop 28: The Arts and Music in Schools — Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act. Prop 28 provides a minimum source for annual funding to “supplement arts education programs” for pupils attending state-funded PK–12 public and charter schools.
En noviembre de 2022, los votantes de California aprobaron por abrumadora mayoría la Proposición 28: Ley de garantía de financiación y rendición de cuentas de las artes y la música en las escuelas. La Proposición 28 proporciona una fuente mínima de financiación anual para complementar los programas de educación artística; para los alumnos que asisten a escuelas públicas y concertadas PK-12 financiadas por el estado.
We are sharing three new coloring pages presented by the Alameda County Arts Commission. Everyone is invited to download, print, and enjoy the coloring pages that celebrate arts education and lifelong learning through the visual and performing arts! You are encouraged to share with friends, families, schools, and community locations.
National arts and education organizations collaborate on an open letter to Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, on steps the Department of Education can take to help rectify arts education inequities through better data and assessments, clearer communication with state and local officials, and engagement of senior staff.
Arts education has a historic investment opportunity with the ARP/ESSER III fund! Get informed and alert school leaders to how to use these billions of dollars towards investments in arts education in your school and school district. Plans were adopted on October 29, 2021.
The policy brief focuses on the outcome of an arts education budget initiative instigated by the bill SB 933 (Allen), known as the “Arts for Every Student Incentive Grant Program”, and sponsored by the California Alliance for Arts Education.
In this brief we set forth recommendations to ensure the arts are explicitly included and supported as a core part of the complete early learning experience for California’s young children.
In this brief we explain why we came to Chula Vista, what we discovered in almost two years of research, and how the data have led to conclusions that speak to the conditions not only in Chula Vista but across the state and country. Watch this video to learn more.
A Pilot Study Examining Student Engagement, Creativity, and Social Emotional Learning in the Chula Vista Elementary School District
Divided into three parts: Building the Pathway, outlines the specific actions taken and resources created; Perception, Policy, and Practice, describes the changes we have seen occur around those actions and resources, along with lessons learned along the way; and Policy in Action provides case study examples of successful programs in school and districts who implemented arts strategies to support Title I goals.
This policy paper underscores our commitment to every California student receiving access to high-quality arts education. That commitment has informed our efforts to promote Title I funds being used for arts education strategies to support Title I goals, arts education as an effective strategy within the goals of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), and our work to articulate and promote arts integration throughout the curriculum.
Arts education can improve student engagement, academic achievement, parent involvement and other Title 1 goals. This paper documents a policy pathway for districts and schools to use arts strategies to achieve Title 1 goals.
Create CA advocates for high-quality arts education for all students by providing policy expertise and mobilizing a statewide network of advocates and allied partners
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